Paper Tiger Powder
Intent: To neutralize a threat and remove their power.
Ingredients:
1 pt Cedar
1 pt Dried Onion
1 pt Tea Leaf
1⁄2 pt Bloodroot**
1⁄2 pt Ash of Roses
** - Exercise extreme caution if pregnant or nursing, recommended that such persons do not use or handle.
Note: Powdered versions of most herbs are available online. I recommend such sites as Starwest Botanicals and Penn Herbs for the quality products at reasonable prices.
Also, if you can get your hands on a good spice grinder, you can make your own powder from dried herb products. If making from scratch, grind each ingredient separately to produce fine powder. Sieve the material through a mesh strainer into a collection dish; this removes the larger unground pieces and gives you cleaner powdered herb. (Pro-Tip: Putting a funnel under the mesh strainer reduces lost material and makes collection much easier.)
Combine the component powders in the collection dish in the appropriate proportions, mix well, and bottle immediately.
For those not familiar with the phrase, a paper tiger is someone or something which appears to be powerful or dangerous, but is actually weak and ineffectual.
Use in magics intended to reduce a person's power to harm you or interfere with your life, or to reveal a puffed-up braggart for the blustering coward that they are.
This powder works best in sympathetic magic worked at a distance, with a poppet or paper charm. I suggest starting with your favorite binding spell and going from there. It is also effective as a strew when placed where you know the target will walk.
Should the reader require supplies, I recommend the following:
Penn Herb Company
Starwest Botanicals
Bulk Apothecary
Mountain Rose Herbs
Specialty Bottle
All recipes are © 2017 Bree NicGarran, published in Pestlework: A Book of Magical Powders & Oils. Please check out the book or the masterpost if you would like more recipes.
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